Uncounted years ago there was only one continent in the world, named Pangea. When Pangea was the only land on the face of the earth, Scotland and Nova Scotia were side by side, together. As the Atlantic Ocean began to widen, it made a separation between the two lands until today they are quite far apart.

Long after they parted, the Gaels came to live in Scotland and centuries after that the Gaels were expelled to far away places throughout the world.

What place did many of the Gaels go to but Nova Scotia? A place so much like the country they left, since they were almost the same place in ancient times? It's no wonder the immigrants came to love the new land which they inhabited!

That's not to say that everything was the same as in Scotland, for it certainly wasn't. Although the two places came from one area, there was a wide ocean between them when the immigrants came and the climates were not similar at all.

Besides that, it was at the end of the Little Ice Age that they came and they found out very quickly that the winters would not be nearly so short nor so warm as they were in Scotland. It wasn't long before they learned that the summers would be warmer and sunnieer than what they were used to. There was different wildlife and insects they had never seen before, and many other things they had to learn about.

In time they were living comfortably in their new land and with how similar it was to the Old Country after they had built some farms, they were happy enough.

But it's amazing to me that so many people of the same culture came to be living in two places that used to be shoulder to shoulder!